Gawker attacks life saving technology because abortion

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/29/g...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

A new breakthrough in medical technology could enable prematurely born infants to survive outside of the womb, greatly improving their chances of survival and reducing risks for mothers unable to reach full term. Naturally, some feminists are upset by the prospects it offers and have tied its development to the end of abortion rights.

The technology, which was unveiled in April, allowed for eight premature lambs to spend four weeks of development in an artificial womb called the Biobag. The lambs survived and have been developing normally.

One would think that such a lifesaving technology, which can potentially save the lives of the 30,000 prematurely born babies each year, would be hailed as a net positive. Not so, argue feminists at Gizmodo who claim that the medical advancement “could also complicate—and even jeopardize—the right to an abortion.”

Speaking to Gizmodo, Harvard Law School bioethicist Glenn Cohen said that the constitutional treatment of abortion was pegged to the viability of a fetus’ survival. “This has the potential to really disrupt things, first by asking the question of whether a fetus could be considered ‘viable’ at the time of abortion if you could place it in an artificial womb.”

“It could wind up being that you only have the right to an abortion up until you can put [a fetus] in the artificial womb,” Cohen told Gizmodo. “It’s terrifying.”
Gizmodo’s Kristen V. Brown takes issue with the possibilities offered by the technology, as a fetus can now be transplanted into an artificial womb instead of being aborted. The technology, if it works on humans, could improve the chances of survival for countless prematurely born infants and drastically reduce the risks to mothers with preexisting medical conditions that make it dangerous for them to give birth. In other words, the artificial womb will make medically necessary late term abortions unnecessary.

“Developing technology also tests the rhetoric surrounding the right to choose,” wrote Brown. “A woman’s right to control her own body is a common legal and ethical argument made in favor of abortion. Under that logic, though, the law could simply compel a woman to put her fetus into an external womb, giving her back control of her own body but still forcing her into parenthood.”

Instead, it’s now a question of whether its existence would deprive a woman of her rights to control her body. In reality, most late-term abortions happen due to medical reasons.

The scientists behind the artificial womb intend to create a version that will work for premature babies born as early as 23 weeks, and hope to test it on human babies within the next five years.

 

[Lackadaisy]

You would think that these people would hate abortion because a large portion of abortions are done on minority women.

 

[Tranhuviya]

Pro-"life" and pro-"choice" are two sides of the same coin; the "trans kid" epidemic should be taken as proof of this. Nobody who cares about bodily autonomy for parent and child is so invested in these issues, because they have to press their ideology and will on others. It's the same with all ideologues.

 

[AnOminous]

You would think that these people would hate abortion because a large portion of abortions are done on minority women.

It's a statistical fact that unwanted children, especially of single mothers, are vastly disproportionately more likely to end up in prison.

So if you want to make some heads explode (actually pretty much any nut pro-choice or anti-life or anti-choice or pro-life), point this out. Tell them they should approve of abortion because it has cut down significantly on crime by minorities, or agree with them that abortion is great for exactly the same reason.

 

[Tranhuviya]

So if you want to make some heads explode (actually pretty much any nut pro-choice or anti-life or anti-choice or pro-life), point this out. Tell them they should approve of abortion because it has cut down significantly on crime by minorities, or agree with that that abortion is great for exactly the same reason.

But that would require acknowledging that a fetus is a human being, and we can't have that!

 

[Steve Mayers]

You would think that these people would hate abortion because a large portion of abortions are done on minority women.

Oddly enough some pro-lifers used the Black Lives Matter name to push that exact agenda. Alex Jones promoted it on his show and called Planned Parenthood a genocidal organization.

 

[Tranhuviya]

Oddly enough some pro-lifers used the Black Lives Matter name to push that exact agenda. Alex Jones promoted it on his show and called Planned Parenthood a genocidal organization.

Combined with your avatar and recent events regarding you, this post is the funniest joke I've seen in a long time. Are you planning to take up Asterisk's throne?

 

[Hummingbird]

Or just using the pill.

Or stick to titty-fucking.

 

[vertexwindi]

Or stick to titty-fucking.

How am I supposed to hit the g-spot then?

 

[cuddle striker]

But that would require acknowledging that a fetus is a human being, and we can't have that!

it is, for all intents. it's a human being.

one human being can't use another's organs without consent. that's where the legal issues fall. abortion is the result of one human not consenting to allow another to use their organs.

this technology means that people who can't get consent for organ use from others can potentially be saved. similar to the invention of an artificial kidney or liver, it takes the consent of another human being out of the equation.

this is a good thing. gawker always takes the wrong tack with this shit, though.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I don't understand all these pro-lifers that are so set that every zygote has to be carried to term and shat out just so it can grow up poor and either become a chronic violent criminal or join some shitty political movement. If it still looks like a tadpole egg why does it have such significance?

 

[Male Idiot]

I don't understand all these pro-lifers that are so set that every zygote has to be carried to term and shat out just so it can grow up poor and either become a chronic violent criminal or join some shitty political movement. If it still looks like a tadpole egg why does it have such significance?

Many european countries have a problem with too little children, and A: We can't build robots B: We can't clone ourselves and C: Imported kebab is bad in quality and more temperamental than a donkey with with a burned ass.

So keeping as many newborn natives as we can is the best solution.

 

[IV 445]

You would think that these people would hate abortion because a large portion of abortions are done on minority women.

I have never been able to wrap my head around that. The DNC gives massive money to PP, which performs most of its procedures on black women, whose offspring are the most loyal of the DNC base. They could have ruled the country for generations.

If Roe v Wade never happened, this place would look like South Africa

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Many european countries have a problem with too little children, and A: We can't build robots B: We can't clone ourselves and C: Imported kebab is bad in quality and more temperamental than a donkey with with a burned ass.

So keeping as many newborn natives as we can is the best solution.

So, shit out a bunch of white babies with no support structure or plan to care for them just because arabs do it? And then when we're packed 20 billion deep like sardines, just keep doing it to win a race that won't end?

Somehow I don't think nationalizing women's wombs as war resources would fly well with the whole individual rights cause.

 

[Elysian]

It's the best insight into why Victorian Women would faint seemingly on command... the need to prove you were offended (and thereby a proper moral woman, not some harlot) outweighed the dignity you lost by doing it and validating backwards thinking about "natural" female frailty that we're still dealing with today.

Huh. I always thought that they fainted a lot because they wore super tight corsets all the time that smushed their organs and made it hard to breathe.

 

[TowinKarz]

The details are hazy, because I wasn't a fan of the show, just absorbing it through proximity to a roommate who was.

But in the late 90s there was an episode of Star Trek DS9 where someone who was pregnant was unable to carry the baby to term due to injury or illness, and another female character volunteered to undergo a procedure to carry it the rest of the way as a surrogate.

The feminists online freaked, arguing it was disrespectful of women's rights to assume that in the far off year of twenty-whatever, humanity would still be shackling women with pregnancy and NOT have progressed to the point you could just "beam the kid" into an incubator instead. Obviously, the show and society in general was misogynist and should be ashamed, you hear me? ASHAMED!

So, now we're developing incubators that allow for pretty much all of that except the beaming.

And the feminists online have freaked because getting WHAT THEY ASKED FOR is disrespectful of women's rights, obviously, scientists and society in general is misogynist and should be ashamed, you hear me? ASHAMED!


Can't win. Don't try.

 

[Coldgrip]

How am I supposed to hit the g-spot then?

Then do her in the ass. As an added bonus she can't get pregnant.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

The details are hazy, because I wasn't a fan of the show, just absorbing it through proximity to a roommate who was.

But in the late 90s there was an episode of Star Trek DS9 where someone who was pregnant was unable to carry the baby to term due to injury or illness, and another female character volunteered to undergo a procedure to carry it the rest of the way as a surrogate.

The feminists online freaked, arguing it was disrespectful of women's rights to assume that in the far off year of twenty-whatever, humanity would still be shackling women with pregnancy and NOT have progressed to the point you could just "beam the kid" into an incubator instead. Obviously, the show and society in general was misogynist and should be ashamed, you hear me? ASHAMED!

So, now we're developing incubators that allow for pretty much all of that except the beaming.

And the feminists online have freaked because getting WHAT THEY ASKED FOR is disrespectful of women's rights, obviously, scientists and society in general is misogynist and should be ashamed, you hear me? ASHAMED!


Can't win. Don't try.

Some feminists say you're bad because you want women to be pregnant, others say you're bad because you are a man and can't experience pregnancy which is the ultimate good thing.

Can't win don't try, indeed. Trying is the worst thing you can do because attempting to appease one group legitimizes all of them when they claim your attention.